I grew up in Peterborough, NH USA in the Monadnock region and went to Conval regional high school. While in high school, I attended the St. Paul's School Advanced Studies program in the summer of 1977 taking a course in French. I then move on to Rochester, NY USA where I was an undergraduate majoring in Optics initially supported by a Naval ROTC Fellowship. I resigned the fellowship when I decided I wanted to go on to graduate school in Optics, entering a 3-2 program to obtain my BS/MS degrees. By the time I was in my fourth year, I decided to apply for and then enter the PhD program in Optics. I worked with Prof. Robert W. Boyd and graduated with my PhD in 1989. I then moved on to a post-doctoral research associateship in Physics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR USA, working with Prof. Thomas W. Mossberg. Below are links to some photos from college and various documents and correspondence from my life in Peterborough and Rochester.

Some old history of me in the form of letters and certificates.

• PhD defense party, hanging with Oskar
• Oskar hanging out on the kitchen table
• MS Diploma from U of Rochester, 1983
• BS Diploma from U of Rochester, 1982
• Student Life Award from U of Rochester, 1982
• Acceptance to PhD program from U of Rochester, 1982
• Acceptance to BS/MS program from U of Rochester, 1981
• Tau Beta Pi induction, 1981
• Acceptance in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences from U of Rochester, 1980 (yes, had to apply after you were at the University!)
• Acceptance to U of R, 1978 (notice the date - I was struggling to find a school that would take me and my NROTC scholarship!)
• Acceptance letter to the Naval ROTC program, 1978
• High School Diplmoa from ConVal
• Grades from senior year, pretty good given that we all had senioritis
• National Honor Society Certificate, 1977
• Certificate for satisfactory completion of the Advanced Studies Program, St. Paul's School, 1977. Amazing I made it through given the evaluation (scroll down the image file to see the evaluation letter). Where I learned to be brutally honest in evaluations.
• Letter to me from a Kodak Scientist. I wrote to Kodak asking for the best film to use to make a hologram (which I did in the basement of our garage in Peterborough)
• Picture of me painting in the art room, one of my favorite activities
• Greaser day at Conval with James Settele